Abstract
Dietary service to aged people of single living was started in Towa, Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1991. Needs to dietary service for the aged of single living were analyzed with the Hayashi's Quantification II method. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this service, differences in recipients with dietary habits and health condition before and after initiation of the service were studied. The survey was conducted by personal interviews with 161 male and female inhabitants aged more than 65.
The results are summarized below :
(1) Through the dietary service, the aged people have been looking forward to keep their daily life to be rhythmical by taking the lunch delivered on time. The aged people have wanted to improve their dietary satisfaction by taking variety of foods, to promote their health, and to ease lonliness.
(2) From the investigation after one year of successive dietary service, the users have begun to take vegetables more frequently and various foods after initiation of the dietary service. Their health condition and dietary satisfaction have clearly improved after the dietary service.
(3) More than 70% of the users have highly evaluated the dietary service and about 95% of them have been wishing to continue the dietary service.
